JOSEPH DEMARTINI 1898-1984

Size:  36 x 40
Medium:  oil on canvas
Signed:  lower right dated 1939
 
Joseph de Martini was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1896. The son of a fisherman, de Martini had education that ended with grammar school. He moved to New York City where he studied art at the National Academy of Design with Leon Kroll and Ivan Olinsky, as well as at the Art Students League.

Known for his paintings of interiors, cities, rivers, boats, and the coast, de Martini often traveled to Monhegan Island, Maine to paint.